Celebrity chef Paula Deen: A sweet, smiling, Southern stereotype turns around and admits to using the n-word, possibly making racist jokes, and more.

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Helena Andrews
| The Root

If she who is without sin should cast the first stone, then perhaps she who is with sin should just shut up, taking her rock and heading home before the walls come crumbling down around her. Nowhere does this modern twist on the oft-quoted Bible verse seem more apt than in the recent controversy surrounding professional glass-house dwellers Serena Williams and Paula Deen.

The two women couldn't be more different - or, as it turns out, alike. There are nearly three decades between the superstars. One makes her living serving on the tennis court, and the other serves Southern comfort on a platter. ...